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As an aside, I am really, really surprised and happy to see a plain-text website available, if you decline cookies. That's a neat approach.

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NPR has a full text-only version of their site. Here's this article there:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=156737801

The "sId" parameter on text.npr.com matches the penultimate part of the www.npr.com URL.

As someone who has turned nearly all cookies off, I appreciate (and use) the plaintext site as well, but there's really no actual reason why they couldn't serve the regular site without cookies all the same.

> there's really no actual reason why they couldn't serve the regular site without cookies all the same.

Well, handling it may be difficult on the frontend, depending on implementation. May very well be easier to just serve it as plaintext.

I don't think it's GDPR compliant, but I'll take it over some other obnoxious "solutions" out there.

Oh, and why is that?

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